Let's Talk Books, Fuckers!

[chaco]

Playboy!

[interstateeight]

Well done. Yes, my teacher made a copy of the story and then furtively handed me the magazine because, hurray coincidences, some kid had gotten in trouble that very day for having the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition.

[Horned Gramma]

Guts is filth.

[interstateeight]

Yeah, but I was 17. Haven't read Palahniuk in years.

EDIT: In before someone does the rudimentary math for the easy joke.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

There were some really good stories in haunted, though. I don't have my copy right now, unfortunately, so I can't look and figure out which ones they were. The Mystery Box... I remember that was one I really liked.

[Horned Gramma]

The worst part is that 'Guts' isn't even the foulest thing in that book.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Certainly a true statement. The vivid description of a decomposing body was the worst for me, actually.

[Catherine Sun Chips]

I know he's overrated by many, but I'm a closet David Sedaris fan.
That fucker makes me LOL more than any contemporary author.

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Fuck I love David Sedaris. The one line in the book 'Dress your family in corduroy and Denim' about dogs eating shit is forever embedded in my brain.

[stamper]

'Happyslapped by a Jellyfish' by Karl Pilkington is the best book I own.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

I thought Dry was really really good, but I wasn't particularly into Running With Scissors.

[Catherine Sun Chips]

Souly--I have a bad (or good) habit of underlining and highlighting good one liners in my books, and all of my Sedaris books are absolutely destroyed from all of the pen marks. It may be the writer in me, I don't know.

I can't remember which book it is, but have you read the "Youth in Asia" chapter? That one has me rolling every time. There's something charming about it that every pet lover who has lost a pet should read.

I have "When You are Engulfed in Flames" on my iPhone and will listen to it in the car occasionally. That's usually a surefire way to make my day so much better.

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I'm not sure! It's been awhile since I've read anything actually. I just remember bits and pieces. This is why I never thought I'd be posting in the Books thread.. Do you read Chuck Klosterman too? I want to marry that man.

[Catherine Sun Chips]

I read "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs". It's pretty good, but Klosterman isn't my favorite. I think he says some funny stuff--I love the chapter on Zack Morris.

There is a brilliant aside he writes about the top questions he has to ask anyone before he can love them. There is this one question about Layne Staley's (fallen Alice in Chains member) voice that has spawned a curse on my life. Since reading that tidbit, I hear an AIC song EVERYWHERE I go!

EDIT: I found the quote:
You meet your soul mate. However, there is a catch: Every three years, someone will break both of your soul mate’s collarbones with a Crescent wrench, and there is only one way you can stop this from happening: You must swallow a pill that will make every song you hear — for the rest of your life — sound as if it’s being performed by the band Alice in Chains. When you hear Creedence Clearwater Revival on the radio, it will sound (to your ears) like it’s being played by Alice in Chains. If you see Radiohead live, every one of their tunes will sound like it’s being covered by Alice in Chains. When you hear a commercial jingle on TV, it will sound like Alice in Chains; if you sing to yourself in the shower, your voice will sound like deceased Alice vocalist Layne Staley performing a capella (but it will only sound this way to you).
Would you swallow the pill?

Stamper said no.
I said yes.
Thus, we're cursed and hear his voice every time we go out.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

I was talking about Augesten Burroughs, by the way.

[Deleted]

That's hilarious Cat. I have definitely read that. I laughed so hard. I would swallow the pill for sure.

[stamper]

Mar 6, 2011 15:10:16 GMT -8 Catherine Sun Chips said:

I read "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs". It's pretty good, but Klosterman isn't my favorite. I think he says some funny stuff--I love the chapter on Zack Morris.

There is a brilliant aside he writes about the top questions he has to ask anyone before he can love them. There is this one question about Layne Staley's (fallen Alice in Chains member) voice that has spawned a curse on my life. Since reading that tidbit, I hear an AIC song EVERYWHERE I go!

EDIT: I found the quote:
You meet your soul mate. However, there is a catch: Every three years, someone will break both of your soul mate’s collarbones with a Crescent wrench, and there is only one way you can stop this from happening: You must swallow a pill that will make every song you hear — for the rest of your life — sound as if it’s being performed by the band Alice in Chains. When you hear Creedence Clearwater Revival on the radio, it will sound (to your ears) like it’s being played by Alice in Chains. If you see Radiohead live, every one of their tunes will sound like it’s being covered by Alice in Chains. When you hear a commercial jingle on TV, it will sound like Alice in Chains; if you sing to yourself in the shower, your voice will sound like deceased Alice vocalist Layne Staley performing a capella (but it will only sound this way to you).
Would you swallow the pill?

Stamper said no.
I said yes.
Thus, we're cursed and hear his voice every time we go out.

There are two specific truths she mentioned above.
1. I did say No. (I'm a terrible bastard, for sure.)
2. We really can't go to any pub without hearing an Alice in Chains song. I used to think it was just a coincidence - but now I really gotta blame catherine for that one... her saying she'd swallow the pill has cursed us indefinitely into hearing 'Man in the Box' or 'Rooster' or 'No Excuses' or some song like that every damn time we try to go out.

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If she ever breaks a collarbone you will feel awful.

[Catherine Sun Chips]

I wish Stamper was exaggerating.

[Shaxspear III Esq.]

I just read Neuromancer by William Gibson for the 8th time. Man I love that book. Blows my mind that it was written in 1984.......which is also a great book.

See what I did thurr?